St. Helen's Church

I had hoped to be back in action action again on Monday but I think I wore myself out at the Singapore Schools Reunion o.n Saturday, but I did enjoy myself. I notic eRuby hasn't posted for a week as well so the daily photos have been missing. I dragged myself out of the house this morning and went into town to look for things to photograph and came across some speakers mounted outside St. Helen's church and lots of posters around the door. There was a message issuing forth from the speakers.

A closer look at the sandwich board revealed that Archbishop John Sentamu was leading prayers through the day.

Traditional Dance Festival 2008

No posting yesterday as I was involved with the York Traditional Dance Festival. This is Fiddlers Fancy a group from Stockport, processing along Daveygate past St. Helen's church. In the background are Minster Strays just emerging from St. Helen's Square into Daveygate. We started the day with fairly low expectations as the weather forecast was dreadful but the sun was shining most of the day whilst others all around us had sunshine. It must be the power of the Morris!

City Art

The City Art Gallery and The National Portrait Gallery have got to gether to place waterproof reproductions of works of art around the city. This one is located in Daveygate in what was the churchyard of St. Helen's church.

St. Helen's Church - St. Helen's Square

St Helen's Church looks out over St. Heln's Square towards the Mansion house. Historic indications show that a church has stood on this spot since the 12th century. It has a history of change and rebuild over the centuries until we see the wonderful building that now stands. It was the chapel for glass painters in mediaeval times. The area that is now St. Helen's Square was part of the churchyard. There is now a separate walled garden in Davygate where headstones from that churchyard can be viewed.